Underachieving students often fail to turn in assignments. They fail to attend class regularly, fail to build positive relationships, and fail to steer clear of self-defeating behaviors. Underachievers fail to find meaning in school work, fail to ask for help, and fail to see the connection between effort, success, and failure.

Failure hurts. Failure encourages impulses to escape, attack, cheat, withdraw, distract, and give up.

• Learn to break the cycle of failure in you underachieving students…so they can improve their performance and maximize their potential.
• Learn to put attribute theory into practice in your classroom…so that underachievers understand the relationship between their behavior and their performance.
• Help underachievers give up the victim stance and assume more responsibility over their school lives…so you can spend less time motivating and more time teaching.
• Help underachievers develop an “I can” stance towards life so that can think, act, and be more successful.
• Dramatically decrease the number of students who choose to underachieve by learning how to manage your classroom and your own mind to positively impact your “at risk” students.

Objectives
Upon successful completion of the workshop, the participants will be able to:

• Learn to diagnose your unmotivated students and prescribe the most appropriate and effective interventions from dozens of classroom-tested strategies.
• Add tools to your professional tool box giving you new and effective techniques for managing disruptive, isolated, apathetic, defiant behaviors.
• Eliminate power struggles and power failure by learning how to help students gain an appropriate and balanced sense of personal power.
• Learn to put attribute theory into practice in your classroom so that underachievers understand the relationship between their behavior and performance.
• Help underachievers give up the victim stance and assume more responsibility over their school lives so you spend less time motivating and more time teaching.
• Dramatically decrease the number of students who choose to underachieve by learning how to manage your classroom and your own mind to positively impact your “at risk” students.
• Learn how to move UP in consciousness before you move IN with action to insure your intervention is appropriate and successful.
• Create a specific plan for each challenging student based on your observations and professional diagnosis.
• Learn to use effective verbal skills that increase achievement motivation and behavior management.
• Learn strategies to eliminate negative behaviors giving you more time for teaching.
• Develop a classroom atmosphere that builds positive relationships and fosters mutual respect.
• Learn strategies for building connectedness and feelings of belonging in your classroom.
• Add teacher-tested ideas for eliminating negative behaviors and responding effectively to “I can’t” language and actions.
• Create a plan to motivate even your most challenging students who see no purpose to school.
• Become the teacher you always wanted to be by learning how to hold students accountable for their choices without wounding their spirit.

Outline
Day 1:

• Who are unmotivated students?
• What behaviors are exhibited by unmotivated students?
• Overview of the two days.
• Definition of students with a Power Problem.
• What a sense of Power is all about.
• Behaviors that indicate a problem with Power.
• Strategies for empowering students.
• Personalizing the Power strategies.
• Goal setting and implementation planning.
• Definition of students with a Mental Models problem.
• Students with a strong sense of Mental Models
• Explanation of the Mental Models Wheel.
• Behaviors that indicate a problem with Mental Models.
• Strategies for helping students develop effective Mental Models.

Day 2

• Personalizing the Mental Models strategies.
• Goal setting and implementation strategies.
• Definition of students with a Consecutiveness problem.
• What a sense of Consecutiveness Is about.
• Behaviors that indicate a problem with Consecutiveness.
• Strategies for help students develop positive Consecutiveness in their lives.
• Personalizing the Consecutiveness strategies.
• Goal setting and implementation strategies.

Trainer’s Profile
Chick M. is a veteran educator who has invested more than 50 years working with children, parents, teachers, and care-givers. More than 300,000 participants have attended his seminars. While writing and lecturing, he offers skill training to help parents and teachers create responsible, caring, confident young people. His seminars provide practical strategies that can be put to use immediately.  Chick’s motivational stories and humor help participants connect with the content and adapt it for their own use.

Chick is the founder and director of The Institute for Personal Power. A consulting firm designed to deliver high quality programs to parents and teachers. He is the author of Spirit Whisperers: Teachers Who Nourish a Child’s Spirit and Parent Talk: How to Talk to Your Children in Words That Build Self-Esteem and Encourage Responsibility and The Teacher Talk Advantage: Five Voices of Effective Teaching. His latest book The Abracadabra Effect: The 13 Verbally Transmitted Diseases and How to Cure Them is co-authored with Thomas Haller.

Methodology
This workshop will include lecture bursts, group work, individualized planning and reflecting, and discussion. Audio visual, experiential and paper and pencil activities will be included. Participants will be invited to think and adopt and adapt ideas presented to their own unique situations.

Target Audience
This workshop is designed for all teachers, administrators, counselors, coaches, and other adults who work in a school setting with students from middle school to high school (Ages 13-18).

Investment
USD750.00/pax
USD650.00/pax if register by 1 July 2018

Other Details
Duration: 2 days, 12 hours
Closing Date: 1 Oct 2018